Officers clean up pot farm site

9:06 AM,
May 31, 2012

Interns from the Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument Mitra Sartipi, left, and Jordan Alderete help Bureau of Land Management law enforcement officers remove irrigation piping and other materials from a marijuana grow site on BLM land in the Arizona Strip on Wednesday.

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Samantha Sadlier

ST. GEORGE - Representatives from the Bureau of Land Management and the National Park Service are encouraging residents to be aware of illegal marijuana farms that exist throughout Southern Utah.

Law enforcement officers from the National Park Service and the BLM's Arizona Strip District took part in a cleanup effort at an abandoned marijuana growing site Wednesday at an undisclosed location along the Arizona Strip.

Based on evidence found at the site, including the dead and dried out marijuana plants, the officers were able to determine the site was about a year old and likely used to grow ...